Profession leather goods quality controller

Leather goods quality controllers perform activities of analysis of visual aspects of the leather goods regarding appearance, robustness, absence of wrinkles, straightness of seams and overall aspects such as cleanliness, colour uniformity, compared to the specifications. They also perform expedite tests.

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Personality Type

Conventional
/ Realistic

Knowledge

Leather goods quality

The quality specifications of materials, processes, and final products, the most common defects in leather, quick tests procedures, laboratory tests procedures and standards, and the adequate equipment for quality checks.

Leather goods manufacturing processes

The processes, technology and machinery involved in the leather goods manufacturing.

The wide range of materials used in leather goods production: leather, leather substitutes (synthetics or artificial materials), textile, etc; the way of distinguishing among various materials based on their properties, advantages and limitations.

Leather goods components

The various procedures and methods in the processing of leather materials and leather goods components like manufacturability and properties.

Skills

Communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages

Speak one or more foreign languages in order to communicate commercial and technical issues with various suppliers and clients.

Apply footwear and leather goods quality control techniques

Apply quality control in footwear and leather goods. Analyse the material, component or model using relevant quality criteria. Compare the material and other components received from the suppliers, or the final product, to standards. Use visual observation and report findings. Control the quantity of leather in the warehouse. Submit components to laboratory control test when necessary. Define the corrective measures when called for.

Use IT tools

Application of computers, computer networks and other information technologies and equipment to storing, retrieving, transmitting and manipulating data, in the context of a business or enterprise.

Use communication techniques

Apply techniques of communication which allow interlocutors to better understand each other and communicate accurately in the transmission of messages.